Begin with the evidence already produced
Portfolio readiness · Four minutes
Lay out the uninterrupted Lesson 5 recording, the accepted Lesson 6 A/B repair, the complete Lesson 7 draft and annotations, the spoken handover, listener evidence and revision brief.
Confirm that the final assessment revises and performs the same established narrative rather than replacing earlier work.
- Check that the written draft is complete and its visible count is 420 words under the recorded convention.
- Name the one written revision and one spoken retest supported by Lesson 7 evidence; use “no repair evidenced” where appropriate.
- Confirm the facts, turning point, source status and permission boundaries against the Lesson 4 and Lesson 5 records.
- Keep every earlier artifact unchanged beside the final versions so development remains traceable.
One story, two assessed modes
Final assessment brief
| Product | Constraint | Audience evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Written narrative | Exactly 420 words; same core events and evidence boundaries as Lessons 1–7 | A reader can reconstruct event line, actors, chronology, turning point, sources and remaining uncertainty |
| Spoken narrative | One uninterrupted eight-to-ten-minute delivery from noun-phrase beat cards, not a read script | A listener reconstructs the same six dimensions and answers a source-status check |
| Evidence record | Claims cite exact written lines, audio time stamps or listener responses | Each can-do judgement is marked not yet, emerging or secure without averaging unlike dimensions |
Choose the action that preserves the validity of the final assessment.
1. The Lesson 7 draft needs one source-frame repair. What should the learner submit?
2. During the spoken task, a participle form fails once. What should the learner do?
Judge six dimensions separately
Unit 38 evidence rubric
| Dimension | Secure evidence | Not yet or emerging evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Extended discourse | The finite event line remains recoverable across 420 words and eight to ten minutes | Expansion produces repetition, unsupported detail or a lost turning point |
| Participle formation | Active, passive and perfect forms express intended voice and relative time | Auxiliary or participle choices change who acts or when events occur |
| Attachment and sequencing | Understood actors, noun modifiers and event order remain unambiguous | Dangling clauses, misplaced reductions or clause chains force reconstruction by guesswork |
| Narrative and lexical precision | Finite clauses carry consequential actions; concrete detail changes inference, atmosphere or action | Turning points are backgrounded or descriptive language is vague, inflated or decorative |
| Evidence integrity | Record, recollection, inference, permission and uncertainty stay distinct | A remembered or likely explanation is presented as confirmed fact |
| Spoken prosody and repair | Thought groups, pauses and prominence support chronology; local self-repair preserves flow | Clause boundaries disappear or repair repeatedly resets the narrative |
Match each observation to the single dimension it directly supports.
D Extended discourse
F Participle formation
S Attachment and sequencing
P Narrative and lexical precision
E Evidence integrity
R Spoken prosody and repair
1. A listener’s map preserves the orientation, disturbance, evidence pressure, turn and consequence after nine minutes.
2. “Having been mislabelled” correctly expresses an earlier passive condition.
3. The reader assigns every supplementary clause to the intended main-clause subject.
4. The discovery receives a short finite sentence while one concrete visual detail changes the inference.
5. The final version identifies Sam’s statement as recollection and calls the reset a likely explanation.
6. After one malformed clause, the speaker corrects it in five words and continues with the same beat.
Calibrate the final decision before performing
Make only the named repair. Do not polish unrelated features or introduce new story facts.
1. Having examined twice, the label was rejected by Mina. — actor and voice
2. Checking the closure record the day before, Mina called Sam on Friday. — completed earlier relationship
3. The photographs, donated in May, were the set the team still needed to catalogue. — defining identification
4. Having called Sam, discovering the reset, correcting the date, Mina closed the record. — turning-point weight
5. The reset proved the photograph was taken on the final day. — source status
Thirty-second oral gate
Speak the sentence before your turning point, the turning point and the sentence after it without reading the full draft.
Confirm that background, consequential event and source status remain audible before the assessed delivery.
- Use the Lesson 7 noun-phrase beat, not a written sentence script.
- Make one background boundary and one main-event prominence audible.
- If the listener cannot recover actor, order or source, apply the pre-authorized local revision from the brief; do not redesign the narrative.
Submit the written narrative and deliver the spoken story
Part 1 · Final 420-word narrative · 8 minutes
Use the Lesson 7 revision brief to make only evidence-supported changes, then submit the final written narrative beside the earlier draft.
Submit exactly 420 words whose event line, compressed relationships, descriptive choices and evidence status remain recoverable.
- Minutes 1–3: apply the one local written revision or document “no repair evidenced”. Preserve successful wording elsewhere.
- Minutes 4–5: audit finite main events, participle formation, actor and noun attachment, relative time and reduced-relative punctuation.
- Minute 6: audit record, recollection, inference, permission and uncertainty against the saved story evidence.
- Minute 7: test every descriptive detail; retain it only if it changes inference, atmosphere or action.
- Minute 8: verify exactly 420 words under the recorded convention and freeze the submitted version.
Part 2 · Final eight-to-ten-minute spoken narrative · 18 minutes
Tell the same story to a listener who has not read the final text. Use the retained noun-phrase beat map; the written narrative remains closed during delivery.
Sustain one uninterrupted eight-to-ten-minute narrative, then defend chronology and source status in brief follow-up questions.
- Minutes 1–2 · prepare: inspect 10–12 noun-phrase beats and the Lesson 7 spoken retest. Mark background boundaries, main-event prominence and the evidence source most likely to be confused.
- Minutes 3–12 · perform: start a visible timer and speak for eight to ten minutes without restarting. Use the full participle range and reduced relatives only where they serve recoverable relationships. Self-repair briefly and continue if needed.
- Minutes 13–15 · reconstruct: the listener records orientation, disturbance, evidence pressure, turn, consequence, actors, event order, evidence sources and remaining uncertainty. Working alone, wait one minute and reconstruct from the audio without notes.
- Minutes 16–17 · defend: answer “How do you know?”, “When did you know?” and one request to clarify a compressed clause. Answers must stay inside the established evidence.
- Minute 18 · preserve: save the unedited recording, timer result, beat map, reconstruction and responses. Do not replace the assessed take with a cleaner rehearsal.
Part 3 · Evidence record · 4 minutes
Judge the written and spoken products against each rubric dimension separately.
Mark not yet, emerging or secure and cite one exact piece of evidence for every judgement.
- Cite a written line and an audio time stamp where both modes contribute evidence.
- Record whether the listener recovered the intended meaning before seeing annotations or explanations.
- Do not average a strong written result into a weak spoken result, or the reverse.
- For any not yet or emerging mark, state one local next test rather than a general promise to improve.
Required submission package
| Artifact | Traceability check |
|---|---|
| Final written narrative | 420 words plus visible count and convention |
| Written development | Lesson 7 draft, annotations and exact revision |
| Final spoken narrative | Unedited 8–10-minute recording plus timer result |
| Spoken development | Lesson 5 recording and Lesson 6 A/B seam repair |
| Audience evidence | Final listener reconstruction and follow-up responses |
| Judgement record | Six separate ratings with line or time-stamp evidence |
Make a bounded can-do claim
Choose the claim justified by the stated evidence.
1. Both audiences recover the chronology and sources, but two perfect-passive forms are malformed in speech. Which claim fits?
2. The written story is precise, but the spoken listener misses the turning point after three background clauses. Which next test is useful?
3. One reduced relative is mispunctuated, but its noun is still recovered. What does the evidence support?
Close the Unit 38 portfolio entry
Review the six rubric judgements and the development artifacts from baseline to final assessment.
Write one bounded can-do claim and one next test.
- Complete: “In this written and spoken narrative, I can ___, as shown by ___.”
- Complete: “I still need to test ___ when ___, using ___ as evidence.”
- Name one successful choice that began in the baseline or midpoint and survived final revision.
Carry extended-discourse control into Unit 39
Choose the Unit 38 principle that transfers into critical discussion.
1. What should remain visible when a long narrative gives way to a discussion of mobility, power and place?
Bridge record
Archive the final observation from your long This American Life episode and long-form Atlantic feature beside the Unit 38 portfolio. For Unit 39, note one place, journey or mobility decision in either source that raises a question about access, power or belonging. Bring only the source location and your question; do not turn the source narrative into a ready-made conclusion.